by Roger Z (2 Submissions)
Category: Games
Compatability: VBA MS Excel
Difficulty: Advanced
Date Added: Wed 10th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Chess engine with GUI for EXCEL / WORD VBA -plus edition for winboard with win32 engine There are two ways
to use this chess engine:
Use ExcelChessBrainX.xlsm with EXCEL or WordChessBrainX.docm with WORD (full install needed, viewers are not working) to play games using the GUI implemented in VBA forms.
Files needed: ChessBrainVB.ini for settings, ChessBrainVB_Book.opn, ChessBrainVB_Book.opi for opening book.
Playing strength 2200 ELO (CCRL 40/4 conditions,
see https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/rating_list_all.html)
Visual Basic for Applications is used for the chess engine. This pseudo code is not compiled and 15 times slower than the compiled VB6 EXE for winboard: calculates about 10.000 moves per second.
2. Use a free chess GUI like ARENA ,add ChessBrainVB.exe as winboard engine and play games.(https://www.playwitharena.com)
Files needed: ChessBrainVB.ini for settings, ChessBrainVB_Book.opn, ChessBrainVB_Book.opi for opening book.
Playing strength 2750 ELO (CCRL 40/4 conditions, see
https://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/rating_list_all.html)
Compiled with Visual Basic 6: calculates about 150.000 moves per second.
Download-Link: https://github.com/RZulu54/ChessBrainVB/releases
VBcoders
